‘Black Widow of Côte d’Azur robbed and poisoned lonely men’

Patricia Dagorn allegedly killed two of her “companions”VALERY HACHE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

A 57-year-old woman went on trial yesterday on charges of murdering two elderly companions with poison and drugging two others in a campaign to rob pensioners on the French Riviera.

Patricia Dagorn, nicknamed the “Black Widow of the Côte d’Azur”, is said by prosecutors to have preyed on at least 20 lonely men, mainly in their 80s, moving in with them before separating them from their money.

Two survivors of her alleged Valium cocktails were present for the start of her trial in Nice. “She was like a ray of sun in the wintertime,” Robert Vaux, 91, a retired seaman and widower, said. “When you are with a younger woman you know it’s not going to last but you are not a masochist so you…

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